TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Speaking of war crimes...

THEY'VE ALREADY USED AMBULANCES, so why should anyone be surprised when Palestinian terrorists use a car labelled "TV" to stage an attack? It's all upside for them -- no significant outrage now, and maybe it'll lead the Israelis to accidentally shoot up a truck full of real reporters, which will then cause worldwide condemnation. Of the Israelis.

And when it happens that condemnation will be outrageous precisely because it is so predictable. Palestinian strategists understand the objective, which is to put the Israeli military in an impossible situation. Everybody else also understands the objective, and -- this is the big point -- everybody understands that the Palestinian strategists understand. It is one giant cesspool of known-knowns, so those who condemn Israel when it happens will be, yes, collaborators.

Of course, the media are only all too happy to be manipulated by the Palestinians. The Palestinians don't even need to be all that savvy or clever about it. When "journalists" and their syndicators are so complicit, you can get away with being pretty damn brazen.

See www.seconddraft.org for an exhaustive set of details & videos on this topic. Readers who haven't seen this stuff will find it to be pretty amazing.

I guess the media finally found an atrocity committed by the palestinian terrorists they are offended by. Use an ambulance? Not a problem. Hide behind children? Hey, they are oppressed and have to use whatever they can. Use a TV van? I could get killed, stop them!

Last I checked, it was white Europeans like Michael Collins in the Irish war for independence from England who developed a lot these barbaric tactics these smelly brown people have adopted. Likewise, I recall my Sunday schooling where the Jews under Moses, then Joshua, rolled back into Canaan and slaughtered whole tribes to the last crying baby, all in the name of sovereignty and God. I recall my Civil War history wherein nathan Bedford Forrest plain ol' attacked ambulance wagons full of wounded freed slaves who were fighting for the Union. For THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. They were shot or bayoneted, along with a few women nurses. All in the killings leading up to lovely events like Ft. Pillow.

I'm not saying the Palestinians are victims or downtrodden. I'm not saying the current state of Israel is a bandit state. Far from it. It's just that when you start beating your chest and pointing fingers, you find yourself in some mighty surprising company.

Actually, that is a fair comment, Chris. Perhaps a touch off-topic, but no more so than many comments sections.

I don't know what the whiteness has got to do with it, but it is certainly true that a great many people from supposedly civilized societies have engaged in similar cruel deceptions. That is one reason why the Geneva Accords came into being, I think. Such barbarities have been the norm rather than the exception for most of human history. We all have ancestors who have done such things.

The difference is in the media false equivalence, I think. Were all sides of the conflict engaging in such reprehensible acts, reporting them would be fair game. The difficulty comes when one side is and one isn't, and the light gray hats get condemned as being no better than the dark gray hats.

There is no war, just the usual Jew-baiting. And since one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter, there is no crime.

LGF reports that over the weekend the Palestinians introduced a new sport, Non-bungee jumping. Given the penchant for theatrics in that part of the world, it may become all the rage. If nothing else, it will make quite a splash.